List Digest, Vol 27, Issue 17 Response to Adam
gwen blake
veggies at fastmail.fm
Wed Sep 24 05:06:07 CDT 2008
In reading your statement, Adam; it seems clear to me that people
generally have a tendency to use avoidance to maintain equilibrium;
which denies them (us) of health and fullness of experience in finding
balance. It becomes a precarious endeavor, such as if one were walking
a tightrope without safety for one to, as you stated, develop a capacity
to numb out cognitive disonance. The immediate gratification or relief
in avoiding, or acknowledging such struggles may outweigh the value of
feeling discomfort while working toward resolution.
Gwen Blake
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> From: "Michael Wieser" <Michael.Wieser at uni-klu.ac.at>
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> From: "Adam Blatner" <ablatner at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: Wtrlt: Google Alert for psychodrama
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> Yeah, Michael (in Austria), thanks. This article :
> http://washingtonindependent.com/3300/beyond-catharsis-the-convention-as-psychodrama
> illustrates what I note at the bottom of my paper on my website, about
> Historical Distortions of Psychodrama, near the end of the page, about
> popular distortions.
> http://www.blatner.com/adam/pdntbk/histdistort.htm
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> this article, though, was an especially egregious example, mocking via
> extreme psychobabble, a major event. Of course psychoanalytic-ese can
> be used (and, alas, has been so used) for all sorts of things beyond
> the clinical setting, and the satire is partly deserved. Many people
> use obscure language when they don't need to. Postmodernist literary
> criticism and related folks also use obscure language. Some jargon is
> needed, much is not.
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> One of the things I like about use of role as a basis for a user
> friendly language is that it's more down-to-earth.
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> Warmly, ADam
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> From: "Adam Blatner" <ablatner at verizon.net>
> Subject: sources of stability
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> Moreno, in Essential Moreno/Fox: "It is almost a miracle that an
> individual can achieve any degree of balance, and man has continually
> been in search of devices which will enable him to attain or increase his
> equilibrium."
>
> Now I like the 2nd part of the sentence, but the first part
> stimulates the following:
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> People develop a rich capacity to numb out cognitive dissonance, to
> create loose and flexible belief systems that can be a general
> assortment of five to twenty platitudes---vaguely associated. Yet
> this matrix can serve as a sufficient narrative flying carpet to
> support all manner of ideologies and self-system creations,
> neurotic, psychotic, fanatic, submissive, oppressed, oppressor, and
> so forth. People don't closely reason their belief systems. They
> select items from the teachings of sermons, parts of books, radio or
> TV broadcasts, they read supportive magazines and news articles,
> they sustain their beliefs. You can gather enough "evidence" to
> maintain a prejudice, support a political position, and so forth.
>
> This belief system then works as a buffer. Without it people
> would be very precarious, especially as they notice the
> profound vulnerability of their own limited and neurosis-laced
> consciousness.
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> What do you think of this? Warmly, Adam
> Adam Blatner, M.D.
> website: www.blatner.com/adam/
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